77 KZ1000 Streetfighter Build

Well, first post on the forum here, figured projects would be a good place to start, lol. Back story:

Picked up the bike cheap from the original owner, hadn't seen the road in 28 years. Bike has 4k original miles on the motor and frame. It was parked due to a locked up carb.

Tires were shot. Suspension was done, needed all new seals. Parked with a tank of gas in it, so the tank rusted thru. Mice got the harness. Time got most everything else. Basically, this thing was a basket case, but it was all there which is the important part.

SOOO, me and a buddy decided that this would be a good project bike for our side buisness we're wanting to start. We tore it all apart and sat around bull shittin for a few nights over beer and smokes, talking about our options. We decided to go the street fighter route with it just to do something a bit different than most we have seen running around our area. Yes, I know that it's nothing new..... :lol:

With that being said, I'm gonna post some pictures, then I'll list out the parts list so far and some more details.


Front end going together for a test fit, and to check some clearances on the frame.





Pretty much gonna be a direct swap over with some minor work. Back wheel tossed in the general area just to see....



And it's awesome what a can of spray paint can do. The final color scheme will be all white frame/tins/plastic with the wheels powder coated to match the shock tubes.





The motor is only half done right now. I've had some other projects pop up that have been eating up time. You can get the idea though.



So at this point this is the list of parts:

2006 636 complete front end
2007 ZX10r front and rear wheels/brakes/sprocket
2006 ZX10r rear mono shock with 636 dog bone linkage
77 KZ650 rear tail section

By the time we're done, it will have rear controls on it, clip ons, custom lights front and rear, anything not needed cut off and smoothed, Corbin seat....... the list keeps going on, but I won't bore with all the details just yet, mostly because we don't have all the details nailed down yet.

So that's that. I'll keep this updated as we go along.

you have the makins of something very cool and by the way i have always been a sucker for white paint jobs on bikes looking good, welcome brother.

Welcome to KZR great project you've got going. looks great so far. I did some similar work to my hot 650, nice use of a 650 tail.
Mark

Looking good! Make sure you keep adding pics to this post.

Hey nice one! Did the ZX10 front wheel bolt in the 636 front end with any issues? Looking great.

Zedone wrote:

Hey nice one! Did the ZX10 front wheel bolt in the 636 front end with any issues? Looking great.

Bolted right up. I did a lot of searching, seems the 06/07 ZX10 wheels are the same as the 05/06 ZX6's. Or at least they're interchangeable, lol.

Looks great so far. I'm hoping to do the same to mine. What swing arm are you going with?

Believe we're using an 03 636 piece. Trying to get one of eGhey, we'll see what the seller says to our offer.

Thanks, I don't know why it seems alot of guys with ZX10' & 636' change their wheels..... I think there a wicked design the way Kawasaki made them.

No problem. And I have to agree, out of all the stock wheels I've seen, I like these the best. Believe it or not the front end was bought to fit these wheels, lol.

203Cree wrote:

Believe we're using an 03 636 piece. Trying to get one of eGhey, we'll see what the seller says to our offer.

Have you test fit it yet? Curious to see if it's to wide.

Haven't got it yet, but I imagine you're correct. I think we'll probably end up having to either take some metal off of it or cut the tabs off the frame and reweld everything. Gonna have to do that anyway for the mono shock. Not a biggie.